Syndicate: borderzmak

[integer@www.god-emil.dk]

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>I could not agree with you more about lazy criminals and art mafiossi.


if you can give life i am not surprised.



>Btw: how did you know I am in love with the velveteen rabbit,

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Subject: "Defining Lines" Opens Today at Borderhack 2.0!
To: integer@www.god-emil.dk
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*For Immediate Release* 

Defining Lines: 
<Breaking Down Borders> 

curated by Cristine Wang 

http://cristine.org/borders 
  
August 24-26, 2001

Borderhack 2.0 <Delete the Border>

organised by Fran Ilich
a camp at the US-Mexico Border

http://de-lete.tv/borderhack 

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**Participating Artists** 

0100101110101101.ORG 
Mark Amerika 
Betty Beaumont 
C5 Corp 
David Crawford 
Douglas Davis 
Andy Deck 
Electronic Disturbance Theater(EDT) 
Epidemic-C / 0100101110101101.ORG 
Fakeshop 
Peter Fend 
Joy Garnett 
Paul Garrin 
Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid 
Wenda Gu 
Ingo Gunther 
Fran Ilich 
I/O/D 
Irational.org 
Jodi.org 
Eduardo Kac 
Yael Kanarek 
Knowbotic Research 
Tina LaPorta 
Jenny Marketou 
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy 
Emil Memon 
MEZ (aka Mary-Anne Breeze) 
Mark Napier 
Netochka Nezvanova 
Marko Peljhan 
RTMark 
Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) 
Linus Torvalds 
Stephen Vitiello 
Ade Ward 

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**Essays** 

"Bandwidth in the Context of Contemporary Art" 
an interview with Catherine David by Marleen
Stikker 

"The Work of Art in the Age of Digital
Reproduction" 
by Douglas Davis 

"Who does the Internet serve?" 
by the Electrohippies Collective 

"Troubles with Life + the Internet" 
by Marina Grzinic 

"Negotiating Meaning: the Dialogic Imagination in
Electronic Art" 
by Eduardo Kac 

"Code as Law" 
a presentation by Lawrence Lessig 

"Database as a Symbolic Form" 
by Lev Manovich 

"Z-niffing the net: Hacking and Hacktivism" 
by Jenny Marketou 

"On Electronic Civil Disobedience" 
by Stefan Wray 

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**Intro statement by the curator, Cristine Wang**


This exhibition will attempt to present a
comprehensive survey of the work of artists who
are 
breaking down the borders or boundaries that
define artistic practise in the 21st century. 
>From the computer DESKTOP, to DOWNLOADABLE 
COMPUTER VIRUSES, OPEN SOURCE AND CODE 
CRACKING SOFTWARE, and E-BOOKS, to 
ALTERNATIVE NETWORK BROWSERS, 
OPERATING SYSTEMS and 
SHAREWARE/FREEWARE, DOMAIN NAME 
SERVERS, to GAMING PATCHES, LISTSERVS, 
ONLINE THEATER (in the form of activism, or 
ELECTRONIC PROTEST)--what constitutes "ART" is
being 
re-defined as EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES and mediums
are 
giving artists the "TOOLS" and a new means of
expression.  In addition, our notions 
or definitions of the tangible, physical "BORDER"
"TERRITORY" or 
"OWNERSHIP/PROPERTY" is being transformed in the
virtual realm 
of cyberspace.  The idea of territory becomes one
of "INTELLECTUAL 
PROPERTY" and "COPYRIGHT/LEFT".  Geopolitical,
and 
topographical territories are being replaced with
domain of the Corporations and Governmental 
Agencies (ICANN) who control the "space" of the
World Wide Web.  Borders 
existing on the network, tracing the idea of
"open" borders vs. "closed" borders, similarly we

look at "firewalls", "encryption", "carnivore";
in contrast to "open source", 
"General Public License" (and therefore the ideas
of 
"authorship") "sharing of files", "data
transfer".  The "SERVER" or "HARD 
DRIVE" as the new territory where "HACKING" and
"ART" exchange 
fertile ground in the realm of the digital
NETWORK we know as the Internet. 
Artists and Activists have their say in the wide
open territory of the WWW, creating a hybrid 
art form called "PRACTIVISM" (--Paul Garrin). 
Hackers and Activists merge 
and become "HACKTIVISTS" (--Electronic
Disturbance Theater).  A new form 
of electronic theater or digital performance art
is developing, that of the Online Protest, or 
"VIRTUAL SIT-IN". 

At the beginning of the 21st century, we see that
the words of Joseph Beuys has its corollary 
in the electronic realm: 

"...Social Sculpture--how we mold 
and shape the world in which we 
live: SCULPTURE AS AN 
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVERYONE IS 
AN ARTIST...All around us the 
fundamentals of life are crying 
out to be shaped, or created." 
          [--Joseph Beuys] 

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view the exhibition online at: 
http://cristine.org/borders 

For more information contact: 
Cristine Wang (curator) email: info@cristine.org 

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